Recently I was forced to benchmark a mysqlnd plugin on Windows. X-Debug was no help. It worked flawless on Windows but it can’t tell you what goes on inside a PHP user space API call, for example, you will not … Continue reading →

Did you ever want to see the database queries an arbitrary PHP MySQL application runs? It takes two free downloads and 62 characters to see them. Get PHP 5.3.4-dev Get PECL/mysqlnd_qc Add 19 characters to your configure line: –enable-mysqlnd-qc Add … Continue reading →

How amusing: an ancient write-up on the first PHP Kongress in 2000 edition written by one who later became a mentor of the autor of phpOpenTracker. How boring: a silver guy talking at the 10th aniversary of the conference about … Continue reading →